Location
London with hybrid working policy allowing flexibility to work from home and collaborate in contemporary offices across the UK.

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

We are looking for a talented Principal Project Manager to join our Project Management Office (PMO) function and support and lead the delivery of numerous projects across the WSP Land team. Our clients are leading names in the aviation, highway, rail, energy & water industries, who rely on WSP to provide expert advice to ensure their large-scale infrastructure projects get off to the best possible start.

As a Principal Project Manager, you will effectively manage a diverse team whilst providing the primary interface to our clients in the delivery of their projects. Supporting a diverse team of technical specialists, you will oversee project delivery ensuring objectives are clearly defined, appropriately resourced and successfully delivered within agreed time, cost, and quality constraints.

You will have a key role in project and commercial governance, working with external and internal stakeholders to ensure project success criteria are managed and realised. You will provide sole leadership on your projects and mentorship to junior PMO members. Additionally, you will build strong relationships with existing and emerging clients, strengthen the WSP opportunity pipeline, and ensure project delivery and commercial performance meet company success criteria.

Key responsibilities include management of project scope and change control, review of project programme timelines including critical path monitoring, resource management, milestone delivery, and reporting to clients and internally. You will manage project budgets, financial performance, forecasting, cost to complete, and earned value management reporting using client specified methods.

Further duties involve managing project risks and opportunities, aligning resources and costs with forecasts, implementing scheduling controls, managing project controls using WSP and client systems, ensuring adherence to quality procedures, and maintaining safety, health, and wellbeing of the project team.

You will also provide leadership on business opportunities and bids, identify process improvements to enhance delivery, manage contracts and suppliers/subcontractors, lead a delivery team of technical specialists, and guide junior project and assistant project managers.

Desirable knowledge includes understanding of planning processes such as Development Consent Orders, Compulsory Purchase Orders, Town and Country Planning Acts, or hybrid bill processes to support technical delivery.

Experience
- Proven experience managing cross-functional teams and engaging with engineering disciplines.
- Experience within regulated industries.
- Understanding of project management, project controls, and procedures associated with major integrated infrastructure projects.
- Experience managing contracts and familiarity with NEC contracts.
- Ability to interrogate, question, and challenge information.
- Ability to coordinate submission of highly detailed deliverables to predetermined deadlines.

About you
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to manage diverse teams and provide mentorship.
- Excellent communication skills to act as primary client interface and manage expectations.
- Proactive in identifying process improvements and driving project success.
- Committed to ensuring safety, health, and wellbeing of project teams.
- Able to work collaboratively within a global and diverse environment.

Qualifications
- Appropriate degree qualification in a relevant discipline.
- Membership of a Professional Institution.
- APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ) or equivalent.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite including Excel, Project, and Word.